Re: Newb: have I killed my Overo Water?

You need to be careful with what you are partitioning. You def. want to be
very certain that you don't attempt to overwrite on your harddrive. If you
are starting with a non-bootable sd card.. I would follow something like
this:
first with card not in: do "mount" see everything that is mounted..then put
card in run mount again..see if you notice anything..nothing should change i
think if its not bootable..i think. If you are using usb card reader like I
am I think it should be /dev/sdb? So I do "sudo fdisk /dev/sdb"
then hit "p" which will print the current paritions. hit "m" for menu..
..then if you want to start new and want to delete current partitions hit
"d" then the number parition..do this for all.(I would do this for all)
then hit "x" enter expert mode so you can change the number of heads,sectors
and cylinders which you should look at gumstix.net or sakoman for an
explanation...once done with that hit "r" and return to normal..

then something like this:

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-965, default 1): 1  **your cylinder size will be different
for each SD CARD
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-965, default 965): +64M

Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): c
Changed system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))

Command (m for help): a
Partition number (1-4): 1

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (10-965, default 10):    ***this will be different for
different size SD CARDS!!!!!
Using default value 10
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (10-965, default 965):   **DEPENDS
ON WHAT YOU CALC'd
Using default value 965

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 7945 MB, 7945060352 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 965 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1           9       72261    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2              10         965     7679070   83  Linux

Command (m for help): w

visnav@visnav-desktop:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1 -n BOOT

visnav@visnav-desktop:~$ sudo mkfs.ext3 -L LINUX /dev/sdb2


hopefully that helps a little..I followed pretty much exactly what was on
either gumstix.net or sakoman..i'm pretty sure..It took me a few tries to
figure it out..good luck!

Also..I did finally get past the kernel 2.6.34 issue..I had to checkout
different org.openembedded..
cd org.openembedded.dev
git checkout --track -b overo origin/overo

then when going to openembedded/recipes/linux I finally have an omap3-2.6.34
folder ..was able to build console image after a few errors..pretty small
ones though..today i Finally got a nand-desktop-image built but have yet to
test it on my waterstorm..hopefully it works

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